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Overview

Objectives/Goals If you use Carmex lip balm SPF 15, then you will have better UV protection over Baby Lips, EOS and Neutrogena. Methods/Materials After purchasing 5,000 UV beads and stringing them up in 100 bead strings, you apply lip balm on each bead. There will be fifty strings of 100 beads divided into five groups: Control group, Neutrogena, Baby Lips, EOS and Carmex. Each string will be placed on a separate individual plate and independently placed outside to record how long it would take for them to change color. A stopwatch was used to record the time the beads started to change color. This was repeated 50 times, to ensure the most accurate results. Results Carmex was the best lip balm with the highest average time in the experiment, 24.756 seconds. EOS had the worst results with 8.292 seconds. Neutrogena was not far behind Carmex at 21.086. Conclusions/Discussion My hypothesis was strengthened because I predicted that Carmex would be the best protection for your lips. Even though Carmex had the highest average in seconds of UV ray exposure the time was not very good. EOS had the worst protection. This was very surprising because it is a very popular brand. SPF 15 is too little of protection for the harmful rays.

Competition history

• CSEF 2015 Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) · Entry J2003

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